Driving control scheme?

[Kim Masi]

Originally Posted by bombadier337

We have "Halo Drive" (as coined by me for our team). We have the same control scheme as in Halo, left joystick is left, right, forward, and back, while keeping the same heading, and the right joystick controls rotation. And it drives soo heavenly and smooth, a nice change over our overly frictionated (cool word) tank drive from last year. Its the most maneuverable little chassis I've ever personally seen.

What kind of wheels did you use for this configuration? it sounds very intriguing. but what kind of rotation were you controlling? is that the rotation of the drive train? or the shoulder mechanism?

[Kim Masi]

clearly, a dance dance revolution pad is the way to go as to how to control the robot. just kidding I don't think FIRST would approve...

seriously though, when I was the base driver last year, our team experimented with both the one stick and the two stick drive.

I prefer the two stick drive because it allows for versatility and it is easy to make small adjustments. Also, the two stick system allows me to rotate on a dime and on the fly. It is easy to maneuver.

[pyroslev]

I recall (My brain's fired from a Bio Test) one year the toggle box with all the controls had two key switches:

1. Changed the direction of the tank drive. Forward was backwards and vice versa to allow quick controls
2. Switched between 1 joystick control for movement and tank drive.

Whether or not they were helped I don't remember but the First switch got a few nods for use that year (Zone Zeal)

[Vaillancourt88]

We were thinking about a neural interface, but decided against it just in case our driver has undiagnosed ADD:

OK, drive forward, turn 20 degrees right....ooh! look at that pretty girl in the stands...LOOK OUT!!!

[angelofsumthin]

well, the total control of tank drive can be simulated using a good programmer who can give you diagonals and tolerance levels so like if u push foward and then a little to the left, it'll just slightly bend left
~D

[ForgottenSalad]

As far as between tank drive and one stick drive, I find tank drive much easier to use. One thing that I would really like to try is thumbsticks (maybe time to pick up an old analog gamepad...) and have the left stick as the forward and backwards, and the right stick as the left and right.

[Tureyhall]

we actually HAVE to use two-joystick drive so that we can program in all the driving "extras" we need for this year's competition. It'd be too hard to program them in with 1 joystick drive. plus our drivers are used to tank drive (drivers are all juniors)....